Everybody can dream, not everyone can...

I’ve always thought of myself as a dreamer –which is certainly not a bad thing- but I think I’m tired of being a dreamer. It’s disappointing and many times dreams just…don’t come true and when they do they’re not as you expected them.

Now, don’t get me wrong on this, I’m not down or depressed or anything like that but that’s how I see dreams right now. I think I’ve found a better way, not of a dreamer anymore but something more solid, more concrete, more likelyto happen, I’m tired of dreaming and being disappointed, I think I’d rather be a…Visionary.

I think that when you have a vision you have more than a dream. A dream, you expect something to happen and be certain way but a with vision -when you have a vision- you really see things happening, you can feel what it will feel like to be doing what you have the vision of doing, you know it’s there even though you can’t really see it, a vision is more related to faith. Anybody can dream, but not everyone can have a vision. A vision is built up with time, is created and is worked-out. A dream, you just have it. Having a vision is more difficult to have than a dream, it takes time and work to build it up.

I want God to keep shaping my vision, I already have part of it but I really think that I need to have a more concrete one, I need to see what dreams can really be part of my vision and which one are just desires –it’s ok if they happen or not- but the ones that I know I’m called to do, those will be part of my vision.

Bill Hybels mentioned that there's a price to pay to shape a vision and I think I'm willing to keep paying that price, I need to keep shaping -and let God do it- and building my vision.

Homework: Do you have dreams? If so which ones are they? Do think you have a vision? Is it complete, have you nailed it? What is your vision? It’s interesting to find out what the dictionary defines vision and dream for.